Less significant, but no less interesting, is the fact that Yang Lan, a media entrepreneur and Pan Shiyi, a property developer, are the most popular microbloggers on the list, with more than 10m followers each.

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"From the birth of the Lebanese state, Tripoli has resisted being a part of Lebanon, " said Ahmad al QasQas, a media representative for the Lebanese chapter of Hizb al-Tahrir, a pan-Arab Islamist party with aspirations for one nation spanning the region under the rule of an emir.

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